Tagged: “Gaelic”
“What Voice? Whose Voice?” An Interview with David Wheatley on The President of Planet Earth
The President of Planet Earth is Wheatley’s fifth collection, and his talent for a wide range of poetic styles and voices is on full display. Here we have prose poems, concrete poems, sestinas and sonnets, alongside more experimental forms. Wheatley draws inspiration from Russian Futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov, Samuel Beckett, and Ian Hamilton Finlay, among others. The result is a fascinating and subversively comedic trek across land and time. In this interview, Wheatley tells us more about his daring new collection and the voices therein.
Continue ReadingPoem of the Week: “A Visit to Croom, 1745” by Michael Hartnett
The thatch dripped soot,
the sun was silver
because the sky
from ruts of mud to high blaze
was water.
What’s Irish for “Merry Christmas to You”?
(Celtic Knot Christmas Wreath from the very impressive Nacho Grandma’s Quilts. Check out the other Celtic Knot designs while you’re there.) Nollaig shona duit! (Say “null-ig hun-nuh dit.”) “Nollaig” (which also means “Christmas” in Scottish Gaelic) derives from the Latin “natalica” for “birthday” and can sometimes be used as a personal name, like “Noel.” We hope…
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